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VC52   William Norman

BORN  1832

DIED   13 March 1896  AGE   63

VC Won  19 December 1854  AGE 22

Place VC Won  Sebastopol, Crimea

War/Campaign  Crimean War

Name   William Norman  No.   3343

VC Issue No.   52   Awards   VC    

Regiment   7th Regiment

Later   Royal Fusiliers

Now   Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

Rank VC Won   Private

Rank End Of Career   Corporal

Place Of Birth   Warrington, Lancashire, England

Place Of Death   7 Ferneley Building, Ferneley Street, Hulme, Salford, Lancashire, England

Buried/Location Ashes  Weaste Cemetery, Cemetery Road, off Eccles New Road, Salford, Manchester, Lancashire, England

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone  Headstone    Plot/Grave no.   Church of England Section, Common grave

Gazetted   24 February 1857

VC Presented   26 June 1857 by Queen Victoria at Hyde Park, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Weaste Cemetery, Cemetery Road, off Eccles New Road, Salford, Manchester, Lancashire, England

By The Way…

Headstone unveiled on 26th January 2004

VC Held By

Royal Fusiliers Museum, Tower of London, London, England

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He was on sentry duty on his own in an advanced, lonely position and by himself, captured two out of three Russian soldiers who were hiding in the brush spying on the position.

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